AuthorBavin-Steding, LouiseDescriptionInvestigates changing concepts of criminality, and subsequent punishments and prison designs. As an archaeological study, it examines a society's reaction to 'unacceptable' behaviour as it is manifest in material remains. The subject of this work is the treatment of criminals in three prisons constructed in the Swan River Colony during the nineteenth century: the Round House (1831-1886), Fremantle Prison (1855-1991), and Perth Gaol (1856-1888). It examines changing concepts of punishment and developments in prison design in early Western Australia and incorporates the policies and ideas which shaped the character of these institutions, their architecture, the modes of punishment they administered , and the types of inmates incarcerated there. While historical documents have provided a context for this study and a particular perspective of the past, the main data base is derived from an examination of architecture and the excavation of artefacts. The focus of this work moves from the wider social context of particular prisons, to the general day to day experiences of prisoners as a group, to the experiences of the individual inmateImprint[Nedlands, W. A.] : UWA. Centre for Archaeology, 1994Collation678 p. : ill. (some col.), maps, plans, ports ; 31 cm.LanguageEnglishNotesThesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Western Australia, 1994 Bibliography: pp.490-518. An abridged version was published in Studies in Western Australian History XIV, 1993, p.121-148Content NoteIntroduction -- Part I. Crime, punishment and prison design -- Chapt. 1 Nature of crime and punishment -- Chapt. 2 Concepts of punishment and their affect on changing prison design, 1700-1900 -- Chapt. 3 Swan River Colony: settlement and prison development -- Part II. Prison architecture: a structural and spatial analysis -- Chapt. 4 Prisons in the landscape -- Chapt. 5 Interior structures and spatial organization -- Chapt. 6 Individual's experience: internal features -- Part III. Prison excavations and artefact analyses -- Chapt. 7 Round House well -- Chapt. 8 Fremantle Prison -- Chapt. 9 Perth Gaol -- ConclusionDewey Class365.4 CATPublication FormatReport
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